Sharp County record., 1887-11-17

chants, or the mechanics me- many
I'm Tbrow Won have at tho beginning ,inas ri%ny
q hard time, but after awhile s,HeSe u ,,nTr ,nT
viii become eusy. You will haN' sot.
own master. Gods sentence will be
isfed. You will be discharged iron
prison. Bless God that you have . praIn
To think and hands to work ana iee. ~
vaIk With; for tin your constant actV!Vy'
n vouno man, is one Of your strongest de-
fenses, Put your trust In God ana 40
vour level best. That child had u rigns
when the horse ran away with the loa1
of wood and be sat upon 1t. Wnen
oskcd if he was frightened he said; mo;
1 prayed to God and hnns on iiNo
Apain. profound respect for the Sab
hath will be to the young man a power.
ful preservative against evil. God mas
tbrust into the toll and fatigue OF llte
recreative dav, when the soul is especla'ly
to he fed, It is no new.fangled notion
n 4 Wild Drained reformer, DuO
an institution established at the
beginning. God has made natural ana
moral laws so harmonious that the Dooy
as we'll as the soul demands this inselt u
tion. Our bodies are seven-day clotks'
that must be wound up as often as tha''
or thew will run down. Failure mus u come
sooner or later to the man who breaks the
Sabbath. Inspiration has called it the
Lords Day, and he who devoteS IL 10 the
world is guilty of robbery. God VIII no1
Iet the sin 90 unpublished either in this
world or the world to come.
While the divine frown must rest upon
him who tramples upon this statute, God
special favor will be upon that young man
who scrupulou5ly observes it. TnlS DAY,
properlv observed, will throw halloWed
Influence over all the week. The song,
and sermon, and sanctuary will hold PACK
from presumptuous scenes. Ihat young
man who begins the duties OF lie
with either secret or open disrespect
of the holy day, I venture to prophesy,
will meet with no prominent sue
cesses. Gods curse will fall upon ms
shin. his store, his Office, his studio, his
bodv and his soul. The way of the wicked
he turneth upside down. In one OF the
old fables it was said that wonderful
child was born in Bagdad, and a magician
could hear his footsteps six thousand
miles away. But | can hear in the Ioot-
step of that young man on his way to the
house of worship this morning, step not
onIv of a lifetime of usefulness, but the
coming step of eternal joys OF heavens
vet millions of miles away.
Again, noble ideal, and confident ex-
pectation of approximating to it, will in
falliblv advance. The artist completes IN
his mind the great thought that he wishes
TO transfer to the canvas or the marble
before he takes up the crayon or the
chisel. The architect plans out the
entire structure before he or
ders the workmen to begin, and, though
there may for a long while seem to be
nothing but laundering and rudeness, he
has in his mind every Corinthan wreath
and Gothic arch and Byzantine capital
The poet arranges the entire plot before he
begins to chime the first canto OF tingllng
rythms. And yet, stranger to us, there
are men who attempt to build their char
acter without knowing in the end whether
it shall be a rude traitors den or st.
Marks of Venice; men who begin to
write the intricate poem of their lives
without knowing whether it shall be a
Homer's "Odyssey" or rhymster's botch'
Nine hundred and ninety-nine men out
| of a thousand are 1fvfdg without any
great lfe.p plot. Booted and spurred, and
plumed, and urging their swift courser in
the hottest haste. | come out and ask:
.Halloo, man, whittier awayW His re-
sponse is; "Nowhere."
Rush into the busy shop or store of
many a one, and taking the plane out OF
the mans hand and laying down the
yard.stick say: "What, man, is all this
about, so much stir and sweat" The re-
ply will stumble and break down between
teeth and lips.
Every days duty ought only to be the
following up of the main plan of exist
ence. Letmen be consistent. If they prefer
misdeedS to correct courses of action, then
let them draw out the design OF knavery,
and cruelty, and plunder. Let every days
fa school and wrong-doing lie added as
coloring to the picture. Let bloody deeds
red stripe the canvas, and the clouds of a
wrathful God hang down heavily over the
canvas, ready to break out in cIamorous
tempest. Let the waters be chafed, a
froth-tangle, and green with immeasura-
BILE depths. Then take torch of burning
pitch and scorch into the frame Of the
picture the right name for it; namely, the
SOULS suicide.
If one entering upon sinful directions
would only, in his mind Or on paper, draw
out in in awful reality this dreadful fu-
ture, he would recoil from it, and say:
Gam l Dante, that by my own life l
should write another Inferno?" But if
you are res olved to live life such as God
and good men will approve, do not let it
| be vague dream, an indefinite deter
mination, but in your mind or upon paper
| sketch it in all its minut9. You can not
know the changes to which you may be
subjected, but you may know what al
ways will be right and always will be
wrong. Let gentleness, and charity, and
veracity, and faith stand in the heart of
the sketch. On some still brooks bank
make a lamb and lion lie down together.
Draw two or three of the trees of life, not
frost-stricken, nor ice glazed, nor wind
stripped, but with thick verdure
waving like the palms of
Heaven. On the darkest cloud
place the rainbow, that bllow of the dy.
ing storm. You need not burn the title
on the frame. The du lest will catch the
design at glance, and say: THAT is the
road to Heaven" All, me! On this sea Of
life what innumerable ships, heavily laden
for